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Correspondence about fees, copyright, "Convergence on Bethlehem" etc.

Music for world peace - broadcast FM - ABC, 18th June, 1989.

View and close up of headstone. Photograph by E.S. Haigh

View and close up of headstone. Photograph by E.S. Haigh

Photos (3 views) taken 15 Jan 1939

Photograph of reproduction of a ? painting or impression (4 copies).

Berndt, R. M.
Aboriginal Sleeping Customs and Dreams, Ooldea, South Australia.
Reprint Oceania, March 1940, Vol. X No.3
Owned by Olive Pink and signed by the author for her

Aborigines’ Friends’ Association 75thannual report, 1933
Signed and annotated by Olive Pink

Group of letters labelled 'About Clive's death' from Peter Leonard, Hugh Macindoe, James Darling, Olive Woolman, Geoffrey[?] and William Ridden.

Letter to Francis Cotton from Abraham Davy dated 7 November 1844. Davy remembered his visit to the Cottons and the Cottons visit to NSW. He also mentioned his family - Helen making progress at school, Meetings, Quakers Ruth Allen and J.P. Robinson, plainness of speech, T. Pollard's children, second marriage.

Folder headed 'A.C. Black'. This contains several letters to and from the publisher about Sansom's proposed book of story rhymes and about the publisher's rejection of his book of poems 'This Happy Breed'.

Account book belonging to George Newton Levy for the years 1900 to 1917, recording sums owed to him for work done etc.

Account Book - household &general 1814-1822 Includes:
• Mrs Leake's household expenses 1814-1820
Household &incidental family expenses such as: servants' wages, food, cakes 2d, washing, oranges, bath brick, child's knife, coals, cloak dying 3/6d, "wearing apparel or myself and children £3", "pewage at St. John's £1 .3s","by Harrison's coach for Arthur's christening"
3 Nov.1814, tape, thread and needles 1/6d, by missionary collections 3s 6d, sacramental collection 6d.
• John Leake's business and general expenses 1820 -July1822 Includes business expenses such as import of oil, "drink money" for carriers etc., and some family expenses such as Edward's schooling, Mrs Leake for housekeeping, papering a room.
• re-used in 1837 for building workers' rations

Account Book 1819 -1823 Includes
• Hamburg trade 1819 -Sept. 1821
Accounts of oil consigned to John Leake of Hamburg (ie.whale oil, black, brown and linseed oil). Also a few other commodities such as sewing cotton from Dacca Twist co., Manchester, redlead, 201 bags Bengal turmeric, Indian tobacco, rum.
• Stores for V.D.L. Sept. 1822
Purchases made by Leake before departure for V.D.L., including: clothing, cloth, farm implements, harness, ox harness, ploughs, carts, carpentry and joinery tools, millstones, smith's anvil, seeds of grass, clover, rye, parsley etc. for pasture, assorted garden vegetable seeds, flowers, hawthorn berries, stove, pots and pans including cast iron girdle, "tea boiler" and camp oven,candle molds,12 boxes of crown glass, drawers and bookcase, sea grass mattress, medicines, stationery, a patent brewing machine, a pair of brass barreled pistols and bullet molds.

Account book dated 1820 detailing cash received and expenses, including duty, postage, carriage, wages, brokerage,
warehouse rents, "drink money" on commodities such as oil, candles, whitelead, rapeseed, oats, turmeric. Also "subscription: Freemason". Rough draft of letter, 1838, partly illegible, at front.

Bookshop account journal dated July 1921 - March 1927 including wages, furniture, stock.

Account ledger dated Sept. 1893 -Aug. 1895. The ledger contains ledger balances, profit & loss account, trial balances, including ships' expenses and cargos, captains, Anchor Tin Mining and other ventures.

Account Ledger of William Gunn c.1835 -1868. Little information recorded. Enclosed: bills for brass candlesticks and snuffers, washing for Mrs Gunn (1845).

Two volumes describing L. Violet Hodgkin impressions of colonial life (not always favourable), the meetings and the social functions and detailed descriptions of the chief Friends’ in each place. In Hobart, where they arrived on the 9th of March, 1909, after brief calls at Perth and Melbourne, and stayed a Heathorn’s Hotel, Violet, described especially the Mathers, the Robeys and their daughters Linor and Margie, the Prosptings whose shop was not doing well, Edith Barnett, John Ridley walker, Elder of the Meeting, and his aunt Mary Augusta Walker. Violet Hodgkin and her brother held special meetings, talks or bible classes for the younger members in each place and in Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide joined the Young Friends camps. In Hobart Violet describes several girls from Friends High School. Hobart, New Zealand and Adelaide were highlights of the visit. Violet Hodgkin does not say much about Sydney, where they spent two months, except for a visit to the Allens in the Blue Mountains, and the visits to Queensland and Melbourne were short and often difficult. Some photos of groups and people are stuck in the “Diary” account. There is also a photograph album of people met, groups and scenery (DX10/3)

Peter Benson Walkers account of the disablement in a storm of the ship " Hope" in 1821, and consequent voyage of the barque "Heroine" from England to Hobart Town, Van Diemen's Land in 1822. From Walker Family Scrapbook compiled by Peter Benson Walker. Private collection Page 13

Account with Schroder & Grossmann dated November 1821 to August 1822. Small notebook: "Contra buch fur Sr. J. Leake mit Schroder & Grossmann A.1821", containing chronological entries of fairly large sums and personal names or figures.
The notebook was later used as a diary by Mrs E. Leake and some draft letters by W.B. Leake are noted in the back.

Subscription receipt books for T.S.A.R.S.A.

Receipts for payment for meat suppled

Miscellaneous accounts and receipts of the Denison No.1 Branch, and statement of receipts and expenditure of Central Execution of Tasmanian Workers' Political League for year ending 24 April 1915.

Bills for postage dated 1839 and 1840 also Bible & Tract Society dated 1863

Treasurer's expenditure accounts and a notebook recording girls pocket money.

Accounts for sheep sold 1832-1833. Mainly W.J.T. Clark.

Accounts issued 1826 to 1833 by Robert Pitcairn, lawyer.

Acknowledgement of resignation from Amalgamated Engineering Union, dated 1958, as he had some years ago entered another sphere of employment.

Copies of informations of witnesses against William Baker had been received by A. Montague, dated 4 April 1831

Photograph of Active East Crater, November 1945. Johnson photo.

Acts and Papers of Parliament, etc. 1913-1916
• The Hydro-Electric Company of Tasmania, information on the proposal before Parliament. 1913;
• Hydro-Electric Power and Metallurgical Co. Ltd. report by E. Parry presented to Parliament 1914;
• Interim Report on the Hydro-Electric Construction Scheme 23 Dec. 1915.;
• Amalgamated Zinc (De Bavray) Lease Enabling Bill 1916;
• Hydro-Electric Department; statement by the Minister for Works 5 Nov. 1919.

Ada Rosina Morris to brother Robert James Morris dated 1905 -1906. Letters to brother in England and a few replies.

Letters from Ada Rosina Morris to mother Sarah Rebecca Morris, 1906 and undated regarding family news

Photograph of Ada Walker (nee Giblin, Mrs Ridley Walker) undated. Head and shoulders, elderly lady, spectacles, black gown.

Invitation from Adam Jackson, Williamswood to Joseph Cotton dated 3 Sept. 1874 to come and stay to discuss proposed marriage to daughter.

Collection of photocopies recieved from the History Department at UTAS. Copies of letters and reports.

Address c.1857 from members of the Church of England resident in Kingston to Francis Nixon, Bishop of Tasmania, concerning their pastor, Rev. E. Freeman. Call upon Your Lordship to exercise the authority vested in you as Bishop of the Diocese, to remove the Rev. E. Freeman from this parish, and to nominate as his successor some discreet and faithful minister of God's Word, whose friendly counsels may advise them in the time of health and prosperity, and whose prayers and affectionate sympathies may console, comfort, and support them in the hour of adversity, sorrow, anguish, and of death.
Signed by Robert Williams and 21 others.

Certificate of admission as Free Mason of third degree of the Tasmanian Union Lodge, No. 3. dated 11 April 1935

Admission as Member of Royal College of Surgeons, London. Signed by President, Vice President and others. Dated 6 February 1824

Admission Registers (1864-1895 and 1869-1888) - contains names with the ages and dates of admission, under whose authority a girl was admitted, for instance, a Justice of the Peace, and the length of time she spent in the School. The Registers sometimes include the date of discharge, where the girl went to work, and the names of the parents. There are two overlapping volumes, possibly kept by two people. After 1880, the entries seem to be irregular.

1. 1864-1895
2. 1869-1888

Certificate : Admission to the Utter Bar, Middle Temple, London dated 1st of October 1909

'Advance Tasmania ' [1914?]
Patriotic song written and composed by Frank Hussey, arranged by A. R. Crowhurst, (xerox copy)

Copy of Adventures in Words Books 2 and 3 by Clive Sansom and Rodney Bennett published in 1939.

Photograph of advertisement for a facsimile edition of First Fleet Journal of Lt. Wm. Brady. [Lieutenant William Bradley (1757– 1833)?]
"A Voyage to N.S.W." R.N. of H.M.S. "Sirius", 1786-1792.

Advertisement for Risby Bros. Franklin Saw & Moulding Mills, timber merchants. Designed and drawn by Thomas Midwood and published in the Illustrated Directory of Hobart.

Stanner, Professor, W.E.H.,
After the Dreaming. Boyer Lectures 1968
Signed by author and inscribed by Olive Pink

A.G. Townley elected for Denison 22 Dec. 1949.

Collection consists of account ledgers and advertisements for A.G. Webster

Correspondence from A. Garrett, Public Library, Melbourne, dated 8 September 1959

Agenda paper for annual conference, of the Tasmanian Workers' Political League, 5 May 1915. Tasmanian Workers' Political League
Denison Division, No.1 Branch. R. Cosgrove Secretary and later President.

Sheehy acting as agent for Josiah Powell, solicitor, of Launceston.

Agreement to convey: Oakden and Lambeth 30 July 1840, 20 Aug. 1842
Philip Oakden of Launceston, gent, to Richard Lambeth of Launceston, builder, agreement to convey land in Launceston High St. bounded by St. George's Square, land of George Pashley formerly Joseph Heazlewood and ground of Richard Grigg, for £126 by 2 bills of exchange at 6 mths. and 2 yrs. at 100/0 interest and quit rents to H.M., in default premises to be sold. Signed, sealed and witnessed
Endorsed with agreement, 20 Aug. 1842, between John Sprunt of Launceston, timber merchant, and Philip Oakden: Richard Lambeth having been declared insolvent bills cancelled and delivered to J.S. assignee and land surrendered to P.O. (Gleadow & Henty solrs.)

Collection consists of glass photographic plates, some stereographic negatives of Tasmanian agricultural scenes

Correspondence and papers relating to Agriculture and Industry.

Items relating to Adam Lindsay Gordon. "Gordon Memorial Committee annual pilgrimage" souvenirs (1920 & ND); newscutting of "Lay me Low" poem by A.L. Gordon (ND); bookmark inscribed "with pleasant memories from Amy". all found enclosed in Poems of Adam
Lindsay Gordon.

Three copies of a typescript radio play for children titled "Aladdin", dated July 1938 by Alice D Baker

Article in 'Horizons', March 1967, referring to Ogilvie's Labor policy speech in 1934, R.C. Smith being chairman.

Black and white photos, colour photos, postcards and typed letter from Sydney Lord Mayor Leo Port in album (mountain scene on cover).
Inscription on title page: 'Loving gift from Gladys Allen, Pontefract Yorks: England, July 1975'.

Black and white photos, colour photos and postcards in album (sailing ships on cover).
Inscription on cover says '1976-77' but pasted inside the cover is a black and white photo of the Lord Mayor of Sydney presenting MSW with a potted liquid amber when she was Senior Citizen of 1973.
Inscription inside cover: 'From Dorothy Allen, Christmas 1976'.

Black and white photos and newspaper cuttings pasted into red album

Black and white photos, and postcards in green album - transparent plastic film has disintegrated

Black and white photos, colour photos and postcards in cork album.
Inscription 'Kind gift of Daphne Aveling to Margaret 13-2-74'.
Includes black and white MST wedding photo pasted inside front cover; and loose letter-sheet 'Dear Margaret Watts, Loving greetings from Australian Friends gathered at Adelaide for General Meeting 10-15 Jan 1963' followed by signed names

Black and white photos, colour photos, postcards and typed letter from Rev Ted Noffs in blue album.
Inscription inside front cover: 'Album from brother Joe, June 12th 1974'.

Handwritten label pasted on cover inscribed 'Margaret's post-war travels. An ad hoc collection including Continental Europe, England, Australia & the USA and some Sydney social service and Quaker projects, in an ancient family album. Margaret Sturge Watts'.
Black and white photos and colour postcards pasted into album.
Includes 1 loose black and white photo with inscription on the reverse: 'Staff of Dept of Labour & Industry, Q'land 1918. When I was Factory Inspector'